Video: US help on its way to Nigeria as second mass abduction of schoolgirls comes to light

posted at 8:01 am on May 7, 2014 by Ed Morrissey

Nigeria accepted the US offer of assistance in rescuing more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram, but not before the UN revealed a second group abduction. Between eight and eleven schoolgirls went missing in Borno, although officials still dispute whether Boko Haram was involved in the incident:

An international uproar mounted Tuesday over the fate of hundreds of Ni­ger­ian schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants in mid-April, with the Obama administration preparing to send a team of specialists to Nigeria to help recover the missing girls and U.N. officials warning that the kidnappers could face arrest, prosecution and prison under international law.

In Nigeria, U.N. officials reported that a new kidnapping had occurred, with between eight and 11 girls abducted Sunday by armed militants in the northern state of Borno to prevent them from attending school. It is unclear whether the same extremist group was involved in both abductions. The state’s police commissioner denied that any abductions had taken place.

The White House announced that Secretary of State John F. Kerry had called Ni­ger­ian President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday morning and offered to send a team including law enforcement and military experts to help his government find and free the roughly 300 girls seized from a school in remote northeastern Nigeria on either April 14 or April 15. Some escaped, but 276 are believed still missing.

A State Department spokesman said that Jonathan, who has been reluctant to move against the militants, “welcomed” the offer. Kerry, in a separate statement, said U.S. officials had delayed action because Jonathan’s government “had its own set of strategies,” but new developments had “convinced everybody that there needs to be a greater effort.”

The US assistance comes as protests rise here over Boko Haram’s actions and the perceived lack of response:

President Goodluck Jonathan has been under fire over accusations the government initially ignored and then later downplayed the abduction of the girls, who have become the focal point of a social media campaign demanding their safe return.

“The President and the government (are) not taking this as easy as people all over the world think,” Doyin Okupe, a spokesman for Jonathan told CNN.

“We’ve done a lot — but we are not talking about it. We’re not Americans. We’re not showing people, you know, but it does not mean that we are not doing something.”

In detailing the government’s response, two special battalions have been devoted to the search for the missing girls, Okupe said. That includes 250 locations that have been searched by helicopters and airplanes.

So far, though, the parents are less than impressed:

But the father of two of the schoolgirls taken by Boko Haram told CNN there has been no sign of the military in the days and weeks following the abduction.

He accused the government of “playing” with the parents of the missing girls, treating them as “fools.”

“Had there been these military men who went into the bush to rescue our daughters, we would have seen them,” said the father, who declined to be identified for fear of reprisals by the government and the terror group. “…We have never seen any military man there.”

The insertion of American resources into Nigeria suggests that the government isn’t trying to downplay the abductions — but probably isn’t capable of dealing with them either. Boko Haram has been conducting a terrorist civil war for years, and operates with some impunity in a large part of the northern region of Nigeria. They have access to the borders of Niger, Chad, Cameroon, and Benin, which means that their hostages could be moved out of Nigeria in a number of different ways. If Boko Haram was too much for the Nigerian security system as a fighting force, dealing with abductions will be even more difficult.

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The White House announced that Secretary of State John F. Kerry had called Ni­ger­ian President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday morning and offered to send a team including law enforcement and military experts to help his government find and free the roughly 300 girls seized from a school in remote northeastern Nigeria on either April 14 or April 15. Some escaped, but 276 are believed still missing.

Who would have thought….The Religion of Peace is waging an actual War on Women and not a single Woman or Liberal in the US has said squat or denounced the Islamic Terrorist Group who claimed responsibility for this.

Number 273 on the list of things that make you question the sincerity of Liberals.

You and the ruling elite’s kids all go to private schools with armed guards, massive security and elmination of any “undesirable” students that don’t fit your belief system. They return home to gated communities with armed guards, 24hr surveillance and police protection.

The common rabble are fine with public schools with no discipline, more armed thugs than teachers, untrainable students. Many of these are located in “gun free safe zones” with 20 minute police response time and no legally armed citizens. Some communities have large populations of “religion of peace” followers that are being trained for next country or city they are going to take over with their peaceful means.

You have nothing to fear for your daughters or family. Screw the proletariat

“I’m from the government (and UN) and I’m here to help”. Scary words to hear if you’re a Nigerian Christian. A Muslim sympathetic administration and a Muslim leaning organization to the rescue? What could go wrong?

Obama just wants to gather up these noble savages mohammedians and grant them asylum. They should be deposited into midwestern cities in groups large enough to balkanize and metastasize.
Murphy9 on May 7, 2014 at 8:40 AM

I am curious what Rand Paul would have to say about US involvement in such a matter. He worries me a bit with respect to isolationism and although I agree with some of his points, this would seem like something of a no brainer.

We aren’t toppling a dictator or fighting a war, but trying to save hundreds of girls from terrorists for god’s sake.

Who would have thought….The Religion of Peace is waging an actual War on Women and not a single Woman or Liberal in the US has said squat or denounced the Islamic Terrorist Group who claimed responsibility for this.

Number 273 on the list of things that make you question the sincerity of Liberals.

Johnnyreb on May 7, 2014 at 8:17 AM
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To be fair, all female Senators did…

ladyingray on May 7, 2014 at 9:12 AM

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How much coverage did it get, by our “valorous” journalists?

I’m NOT calling you a liar … it’s just that I didn’t see or hear any broadcast coverage of any of our females in government office denouncing this kidnapping.

Meanwhile, I’m re-posting this from yesterday’s thread, about this story:
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What federal resources are going towards finding the 64,000 black women who go missing in the U.S. and are never found and never receive media attention in this country. Thanks for the Daily Male in covering that story.

In New York, a spokesman for the U.N. high commissioner for human rights said at a news conference Tuesday, “We warn the perpetrators that there is an absolute prohibition against slavery and sexual slavery in international law.” He said that meant that those responsible could be “arrested, charged, prosecuted, and jailed at any time in the future.”

There are enclaves everywhere. I go to Wal mart(on rare occasion) on Sunday night, and I might as well be in a Bazaar in Benghazi. Women in bags trailing behind their man in a ankle length nightshirt with 8 kids running around.

What federal resources are going towards finding the 64,000 black women who go missing in the U.S. and are never found and never receive media attention in this country. Thanks for the Daily Male in covering that story.

This is the way Vietnam started. Aid followed by military aid. Followed by advisers followed by military advisers. Followed by military guards followed by regular troops. A French created problem became an inherited American problem unnecessarily thanks to the JFK and LBJ.

There are 140+ countries in the world and unless our national interests are involved we should be careful about involvement– which can become both bloody and expensive. This is especially true since metaphorically speaking we are currently guided by a blind pilot, who cheated his way through flight school, is high on drugs and is flying in the middle of a category five storm in an obsolete plane.

But our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous — not a premeditated — response to their very offensive album called, “A Whiter Shade of Pale”.
– Susan Rice

US should simply tell this inhuman pos that he has 5 minutes to release these girls or he and his family and everyone he’s ever known will be turned in charcoal briquettes. Once we launch you have no escape and we will not call back the attack.

What federal resources are going towards finding the 64,000 black women who go missing in the U.S. and are never found and never receive media attention in this country. Thanks for the Daily Male in covering that story.

Notice in those stories where missing women become a national story have to do with the parents themselves going to the media. So don’t just go blame it on racism. Blame it on parents using every resource possible to find their children.

Did somebody wake up Obama?????? There have been savage murders against Christians in Nigeria for a long time. Not only in Nigeria but in Syria and Egypt. Is it suddenly fashionable to come out now? This Obama does everything by politics and how it benefits him. Cair now is complaining to Fox about Bob Beckle’s anti muslim talk. Beckle said last night on The Five that “Don’t go after our producer but you can come after me”,,,, These muzzies are cowards when they are still in the minority.

U.N. officials warning that the kidnappers could face arrest, prosecution and prison under international law.

Hahahaha, as if the UN is actually capable of capturing these individuals and prosecuting them. Based on the UN past sexual escapades, the girls have more to fear from the UN personnel if found than Boko Haram.

That being said, US officials should say, “We will hunt you down and kill you! After we kill you in the most painful death we can devise at the moment, we will then bury you in a grave filled with swine feces.

The US should have kept it’s mouth shut about this. Looks like Obama is trying to spike the football before he even crosses the goal line. “Hey, look at me! I’m going to help save those girls!”. Sort of like a running back starting a celebration dance as soon as he GETS the ball.

What federal resources are going towards finding the 64,000 black women who go missing in the U.S. and are never found and never receive media attention in this country. Thanks for the Daily Male in covering that story.

Priorities. Priorities. Priorities. National interest. National interest. national interest. Currently the number 1 priority that involves our national interest is a nuclear armed Iran-whose leadership is nutty enough to actually use these weapons. If we had bombed them a year ago, with Israel’s coordinated help ,we not only would have eliminated the number one world threat (as well as the U.S.’s number one danger) but would have given Putin second or third thoughts about annexing the Crimea and perhaps the rest of Eastern Europe. That’s OBVIOUS.It would also have checked China’s gambit to annex Pacific islands.

This is why Nigeria worries me. It doesn’t involve our national interest which is precisely why liberals are interested in a US “commitment”. I can remember arguing with a group of Dartmouth College professors in the mid-60s who all wanted us to get militarily involved in Vietnam-of course for “humanitarian” reasons. I just wonder how many of these professors sons served in Vietnam? (If you guessed -0- you guessed right). You see liberals not only spend other people’s money for utopian pipe dreams but kill OTHER PEOPLE’S SONS in “humanitarian” wars.

What federal resources are going towards finding the 64,000 black women who go missing in the U.S. and are never found and never receive media attention in this country. Thanks for the Daily Male in covering that story.

I would have had assistance over there the day after I found out. Then again I also would have sent troops to assist in Benghazi too, so obviously I’m a horrible politician and there’s a reason I don’t have authority to do those things.

The US should have kept it’s mouth shut about this. Looks like Obama is trying to spike the football before he even crosses the goal line. “Hey, look at me! I’m going to help save those girls!”. Sort of like a running back starting a celebration dance as soon as he GETS the ball.

crosspatch on May 7, 2014 at 11:32 AM

You are right about that. Boko Haram will not hesitate to rape, mutilate and murder these girls, particularly to show the West how weak it is in the face of radical Islam. Obama should have done this undercover to sneak up on these basta*ds and annihilate them.

Unlike the rest of the Dark Continent, Nigeria prizes education for its men and women (even for some nefarious activities, but, hey, it’s a start) and are heavily invested in it, exporting and importing talent. I’ve known some excellent people from there.

that’s quite a statement there…. since i haven’t met a single person much less a single female who is NOT outraged about this and who is not throwing a fit over it. Already wrote our letters to our senators and congress critters. please stop the generalizations that have no basis in fact just opinion. this is NOT a war on women anyway it is a war on Christianity , the girls taken were Christians not muslims

Who ever they send I just hope the standing order is: Weapons Free(This is the order given by the bridge on a ship when the automatic defense systems, Phalanx, RAM, etc., are brought up and allowed to fire.)

Memo to Democrats: This is what a war on women looks like. Stop diminishing the phrase.

BuckeyeSam on May 7, 2014 at 8:11 AM

Amen.

By the way, you don’t see Jews or Christians:
1. Kidnapping and selling into slavery hundreds of girls just because they dared to be educated.
2. Flying planes into buildings.
3. Bombing marathons.
4. Storming shopping malls and killing everyone.